Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit

Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository AUR this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it lands with root, it can also load an eBPF...

The Bug Report November 2021 Edition

The Bug Report — November 2021 Edition By Mark Bereza · November 30, 2021 Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief CVE-2021-20322: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “it was DNS again.” Why am I here? For all our newcomers, welcome to the Advanced Threat Research team’s monthly bug report ...

Malicious Software Packages Found On Arch Linux User Repository

Yet another incident which showcases that you should not explicitly trust user-controlled software repositories. One of the most popular Linux distrosArch Linux has pulled as many as three user-maintained software repository AUR packages after it was found hosting malicious code. Arch Linux is an...